Researcher (Machine Learning)

We invite beginners and experienced researchers to our Yandex Research Team. We offer a unique opportunity to engage in world-level applied and theoretical research, publish your results at leading conferences (ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ACL, KDD, ICCV, ECCV, EMNLP, ect.), and contribute to the high-tech services of Yandex: e.g., modern computer vision technologies, dialogue systems, neural machine translation, self-driving cars and more.

• Develop new technologies
• Conduct experiments to verify your scientific hypotheses
• Write papers describing your new results
• Present your results at top-tier international conferences

• Have higher technical education with good training in mathematics and algorithms
• Have studied at least one of the following areas: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing
• Have good programming skills in C++ or Python for implementing algorithms and conducting experiments
• Have good written and spoken English
• Want to drive your own research agenda

• Have a Ph.D. degree or its equivalent
• Have experience of graduate studies in a strong academic group
• Have experience writing research papers, publications in leading journals and conference proceedings
• Have experience in applied mathematical statistics
• Have profound knowledge of mathematics and the ability to achieve new results
• Participate international scientific competitions, such as KDD Cup, Kaggle competitions
• Have experience in developing big data software
• Have experience working on a team

• Experience in one of the world's strongest scientific laboratories
• The opportunity to hone your skills of conducting research projects, introducing new technologies and writing papers for the best conferences
• The opportunity to play a key role in a young and growing team
• The opportunity to engage in science
• A competitive salary